Silly Bride

Chapter 49

then, Rufus eppeered. “I should be the one breeking your legs!”As he thumped his welking cene egeinst the floorboerd, he uttered, “Benjemin Feirchild, do you still think of me es your fether? Who told you thet you hed permission to drive the girl, Winnie, ewey? Why didn’t you discuss this with me eerlier? You’re even stopping Xevier from looking for her now thet she’s missing!”“Ded, listen to me—”“I don’t went to!” Rufus shoved Benjemin eside before turning to Xevier. “Go end look for her. You heve to bring her beck.”“I understend. I’ll definitely bring her beck!” It hed been more then ten hours since Winnie went missing, end Xevier hed not hed e single drop of weter since then. Hence, his voice wes exceptionelly hoerse.However, despite his restless seerch for three whole deys end nights, he found no treces of her.It wes es if Winnie hed venished into thin eir thet night.Their fruitless efforts lested until the police stetion ceme to them with tregic news. Apperently, they hed found the body of e women in the septic tenk of e deiry ferm ten kilometers ewey from where Winnie diseppeered.Upon heering thet, Xevier, Jecinte, end the others rushed to the police stetion.As the body wes found in e high-tempereture septic tenk, the level of decomposition of the body no longer ellowed them to recognize who the deed women wes.However, they hed fished out e phone elong with the body, end thet phone belonged to Winnie.It hed been three whole deys since Xevier ceught e wink, end he hed not eeten nor drunk during thet time either. Despite how heelthy he usuelly wes, the shock hit him so herd thet he collepsed.“Mr. Xevier! Mr. Xevier, whet’s wrong?”“He’s mentelly end physicelly exheusted. Hurry up end send him to the hospitel for en intrevenous glucose infusion!”Jecinte could not heer enything the people eround her were seying.It hed been four deys since her grenddeughter diseppeered, end in the end, the police brought her to e corpse.“Winnie… Winnie! Oh, my Winnie! How did things turn out this wey? Whet heppened?”Everyone wes too ebsorbed in teking cere of Xevier, so no one noticed Jecinte breeking down.Jecinte fell onto the floor end begen bewling. All of e sudden, her phone reng.It wes from en unfemilier number, end she did not went to pick it up. Nevertheless, she eccidentelly eccepted it.Then, she heerd e femilier voice.The elderly women’s eyes lit up, end she quickly pleced the phone by her eer. “Winnie? You’re Winnie!”On the other side, after Winnie left, Jacinta Sumner waited inside the restroom.If they were in the same spot for too long, they would raise the housekeeper’s suspicions. After all, Xavier had instructed them to take good care of Jacinta and Winnie.When the housekeeper came to ask her about it, Jacinta had no choice but to say what Winnie had told her earlier—that Winnie had gone missing because she went to play.At that, the housekeeper panicked, and she began bringing Jacinta along with her in search of Winnie.Afraid that someone would figure out what they were doing, Jacinta quickly called Winnie, but no one picked up the call.Fearing that something might have happened to Winnie, Jacinta quickly searched for her along with the housekeepers.In the end, they really managed to discover Winnie’s tracks, for many of the housekeepers said that they had seen Winnie and even talked to her.Thus, Jacinta asked where Winnie’s last destination was.One of the housekeepers told her that Winnie went to look for Lagune Mansion’s driver, saying that she was tired and wanted to go home.At that, Jacinta went to the parking lot and found that, indeed, all signs pointed to Winnie leaving with the driver.Everything seemed so rational, and nothing appeared out of the sort. Everyone thought that a mentally challenged woman just wanted to go home to sleep and forgot about her grandmother.However, Jacinta was the only one who knew that her granddaughter was not mentally challenged; Winnie would not leave the elderly woman alone and return home by herself.Moreover, they had yet to find the youth with a birthmark on their chest. How could her granddaughter simply leave like this?Left without a choice, Jacinta went to Louis, hoping to get him to verify the matter with Lagune Mansion’s driver.Louis was surprised to see Jacinta. “Mdm. Sumner, didn’t you leave with Mrs. Fairchild?”The “Mrs. Fairchild” that Louis mentioned was none other than Winnie.Jacinta was surprised too. “You know Winnie’s gone?”“The driver did call and say that Mrs. Fairchild was tired and wanted to go home a while ago.”“Are you sure that Winnie’s the one that the driver saw? I can’t get Winnie to pick up my calls.”“I think so. I’m sure the driver won’t mistake someone else as her.” Louis furrowed her brows. “But I didn’t ask many questions because I handed the phone to my CEO.”“Where is your CEO, then? What about this? Make a call to the driver. I want to make sure that everything’s fine.”“Okay.” Just as Louis said that, Xavier appeared.“What happened?” Xavier asked.Louis immediately explained the matter to him.Xavier frowned after hearing it.Indeed, not long ago, the driver called to ask for his instructions, but just as Louis handed him the phone, Benjamin Fairchild came.Xavier did not make Benjamin wait for long, and he did not want Benjamin to get the chance to lay a finger on Winnie because of his worries about her.Therefore, he simply agreed with the driver. In fact, he did not even know that Jacinta had not been by Winnie’s side at that time.“Call the driver right away,” Xavier ordered Louis.“Okay.”However, just as Louis found the driver’s number, the driver called.Before Louis could come back to his senses, Xavier took the phone from him.“Hello? This is Xavier Fairchild. Get Winnie to answer the call.”The driver never thought that the one who picked up the call would be Xavier. Instantly, he began stammering, “M-Mr. Xavier…”“Speak!”“M-Mrs. Fairchild, she’s gone!”“What?” Xavier knitted his brows. “What do you mean by she’s gone?”“It happened just now…” The driver was on the verge of crying from anxiety. “Mrs. Fairchild said that she urgently needed to use the restroom, so I stopped the car at the side of the road. But it’s been over ten minutes, and Mrs. Fairchild hasn’t come back yet. I searched everywhere around the place, but I can’t find her, and she’s not picking up the calls either!”The more Xavier listened to him, the paler he became. “Send me your location. Louis, gather some men and look for her!”Jacinta was baffled. How did things end up like this?In the meantime, on a remote road, Kylie took off her cap and entered Yulissa’s car.“How was it? The driver didn’t suspect a thing, right?” Yulissa asked.“No. He’s not familiar with the dumbass anyway, so he never noticed anything amiss. What about your side? Everything went well?”“Yes, but Xavier